Episode 3 of Archaeo-Noughts, issue 2. The Rump Bunker's response. Let me know what you guys think, feedback welcome. Just a cheer to the editors. The size of the episodes has grown, and so has their workload. So, join me in giving them a cheer of thanks. It doesn't happen without them. Editors. @JacquelineSmall @ronInBendigo @RicardoCalvrio1 @East10Outpost

💯 useful idiot do gooders destroy Civilization👇

In 2019, astronauts aboard the International Space Station used CRISPR to edit DNA in living yeast. Humanity had begun rewriting life beyond Earth. But that raises a strange question. If someone had done this long before us… what would they have left behind? Consider the tardigrade. Scientists identified a protein called Dsup that helps protect its DNA. In 2016, they engineered human cells grown in a laboratory to produce it. Those cells suffered roughly 40% less DNA damage when exposed to X-rays. A biological defence from one animal was now working inside human cells. And with tools like CRISPR, we can make targeted changes to DNA itself. But imagine where that could lead. One day, we might send a probe to another planet carrying microorganisms engineered to survive its conditions. Life designed to withstand radiation, extreme cold or an atmosphere that would kill most organisms on Earth. The probe lands. The organisms survive. Perhaps they reproduce and evolve. Then millions of years pass. The probe falls apart. The civilisation that sent it (us) might disappear. But its biological cargo could still be there. Changed beyond recognition. Part of the planet’s ecosystem. Now turn that possibility around. What if something similar happened here, long before humans existed? What if the visitors weren’t colonists stepping out of a spacecraft, but microscopic organisms carried inside a probe? There’s no evidence that this happened, or that tardigrades were engineered. This is just a thought experiment But it changes what we might look for. Because we imagine evidence of ancient visitors as a buried spacecraft or an impossible machine. Yet their longest-lasting legacy might be something that grows, reproduces and evolves. Something we encounter every day. And after billions of years… Would we recognise it as technology? Or would we simply call it life?

This morning I was thinking about a moment from the trip that really struck me to the core. I found myself at a dinner in someone’s home whom I had only met a day previous. On the surface that seems relatively odd to my rational brain. But there in the moment I couldn’t help but feel like I was at a Christmas dinner from my childhood. My crazy uncles who draw psychedelic face paint on me and sneak into megalithic sites — Uncle Drew (@DrewBrophy) and Uncle Hugh (@MEGALITHOMANIA) — were there on the couch chatting with my oldest cousin Mike (@WWolfProd), who even though he’s rad as hell has never been too good for me. Auntie Trish (@TrishPage) and Auntie Maria (@mariabrophy) were there sitting at the counter having laughs and smiles over wine and filling the room with warmth and love. Then my cousins Jeff (@JeffUP_North) and Donovan were talking some sports over beers. I was there with my brother Aaron (@Megalithicmyste), Von (@SamuraiVon), and my sister Megan. Sitting at the table enjoying the delicious home-cooked meal my cousins Corinne and Kayana were proudly serving out. In this reality I was in a room with a bunch of total strangers. But in the ether I am certain my soul was sitting with a very familiar tribe that evening, and the love and warmth and abundance was present and deafening. Grateful the universe reconnected me with my tribe and that we could all share such a beautiful moment💚✨️🫂

Hopefully, we get a new video out of it.

"If you want to know where someone is at, look where they put the most energy". Look where Macron has put all of his energy....

There is no greater example of treason and unspeakable putrid depravity than the ABC in this country. No Australian mother should ever forget the damage they have done to the future of her children.

Hey Chris. We met at PsiGames last year 2025, when I interviewed you for my RV doc. I cover Mars, and can tell you ➡️much more⬅️ about all the evidence for life, including intelligent. Hit me up. We should chat. My Mars doc is on Amazon.

The opportunist government have laid the groundwork. Anthony Albanese and Tony Burke have pounced. Using the attack on Haines as leverage. Even though it has nothing to do with online activity, Albo and Burke have made it about the internet. The AFP commissioner is in on it too. She's been dragged into it. We're stuffed. Watch what happens. No more political speech or freedom of expression. One Nation will sack the AFP boss and restore freedom of expression and political speech.

“Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles had plenty to say about Anthony Albanese’s ‘grace’ on Wednesday, but rather less about the dirt sheet his boss's office circulated against Helen Haines just weeks ago. Asked on Nine’s Today show about the document revealed by the Daily Mail, Marles retreated into an appeal for ‘all of us’ to take responsibility for public debate. On ABC Radio National, he said he was unaware of the document, which was slammed as 'desperate' by Haines herself before Monday's alleged attack. Marles also urged against ‘pointing fingers’. I wonder how long it took the same group of advisers who wrote the Haines dirt sheet to come up with those excuses? The dirt sheet was circulated soon after Haines criticised a $6 million grant to Albanese’s local golf club. It supplied no evidence of undisclosed wrongdoing, but invited journalists to investigate whether her advocacy for local projects concealed undeclared gifts or personal interests.  It was grubby, and totally baseless.  Its embedded metadata named Albanese’s deputy communications director as creator and last editor, although metadata alone cannot conclusively establish authorship. Who knew about the dirt sheet, and contributed to writing it, could go much wider than one senior political staffer. Readers need not rely on Marles’s character references or our description of the material. We've decided to share the full document below, so readers can judge for themselves.” dailymail.com/news/article-1…

Flint Dibble knows less about Noah’s Ark than he does about Easter Island. Every day archaeology allows him to represent the field is another day archaeology functions like a cult.

Shoutout to everyone who pulled together the Sidequest for Ancients event in Austin this past weekend! We hope everyone made it home safely and got some much needed rest. 🛬 Watching the community improvise, show up, and keep the knowledge flowing was awe inspiring and we thoroughly enjoyed watching it unfold. ✨ Love you all! Great work! 🫶

Trump paying ‘Commissions’ to report fraudsters. We need this happening here in Australia. I would like to kick off by making the first report of the VIC Labor Government. They lied, cheated, stole from taxpayers & committed ‘Branch Stacking’ fraud. My next report would be all the Islamists committing welfare fraud and NDIS FRAUD. And finally, I would like to report PM Ellery/Albanese for all the lies and climate scam fraud his Labor Govt have committed. See video below. 👇 #SpringSt #LaborTrash #Auspol

Enough said.

Hypocrisy, thy name is Albo.

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This is, actually, one of the greatest fears of the Rump. The understanding that they are not science will become widely known. When you think about it, the only pedestal of credibility they have left to stand on.

There you go. DEI AFP commissar is an anti free speech totalitarian. Fascism, communism we are watching it happen

‘Unclear who forms government’: Labor loses election lead news24.com.au/politics/austr… via @News24Aust Anyone still voting for Labor at this point, needs an intervention!

After much struggling with cover issues, my new book is now available on Amazon: PENDEJO CAVE: The Evidence That Should Have Changed American Prehistory For most of the twentieth century, the story of the first Americans appeared to have a beginning. Then archaeologists began finding evidence that the story might be far older. Hidden within a limestone cliff in southern New Mexico lies Pendejo Cave, an archaeological site that produced one of the most controversial collections of evidence ever recovered in the Americas. Excavated under the direction of renowned archaeologist Richard S. MacNeish, the cave revealed a remarkable sequence of deposits extending deep into the Pleistocene. From its stratified layers came stone objects, worked bone, hearth-like features, human hair, friction-skin impressions, botanical remains, extinct fauna, and more than seventy radiocarbon determinations. Some of the evidence appeared in deposits dating tens of thousands of years before the long-accepted arrival of humans in the Americas. The implications were extraordinary. So was the controversy. Individual artifacts were questioned. Natural processes were proposed. Stratigraphic disturbance was debated. Dates were challenged. And gradually, Pendejo Cave disappeared from the centre of the discussion surrounding the first Americans. But the evidence did not disappear. The artifacts still exist. The excavation records survive. The radiocarbon determinations remain. The specialist studies were published. And in the decades since the excavation of Pendejo Cave, discoveries at Monte Verde, Meadowcroft, Bluefish Caves, White Sands, Chiquihuite Cave, and other sites have forced archaeology to reconsider ideas once regarded as impossible. Pendejo Cave: The Evidence That Should Have Changed American Prehistory returns to the original excavation and asks a simple question: What happens when we stop examining each disputed object in isolation and begin looking at the evidence as a whole? Drawing upon the original excavation reports, laboratory analyses, radiocarbon chronology, stratigraphy, lithic studies, worked bone, biological evidence, and the history of the controversy itself, Ricardo Calvário reconstructs the forgotten story of Pendejo Cave. This is not a book about proving that every interpretation made by MacNeish and his colleagues was correct. It is about something more fundamental. Whether one of the most extraordinary archaeological sites in the Americas was rejected before science had truly finished investigating it. amazon.com/dp/B0HKKWL23D

Dang. I hope I never get turned into a meme. Imagine being this woman, scrolling through social media, and half the world is making fun of her, adding her face to silly memes.